Playstation 3 Information, hardware, games discussion Part II

[CaptainZombie]

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My heart just sank. Did M$ buy some of the shares of Immersion? I wonder what patent they exactly have on the controller and what Sony is going to do. That really sucks if they have to pay 30 million a year.

This will be bad for SONY. Some crazy stuff.

[Ice Cream Truck]

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My heart just sank. Did M$ buy some of the shares of Immersion? I wonder what patent they exactly have on the controller and what Sony is going to do. That really sucks if they have to pay 30 million a year.

What's going on? Sorry, I'm totally confused. Did Sony lose rights to Dual Shock or something? What's Immersion?

[CaptainZombie]

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What's going on? Sorry, I'm totally confused. Did Sony lose rights to Dual Shock or something? What's Immersion?

I guess they never had the rights to begin with as this company was first to have the technology patented, and some how SONY didn't pay them which I'm kind of confused at that point. Almost 6 years later, they are getting sued.

[countryboy]

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Sony just lost the appeal.

They have to pay Immersion $90 million.

http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/news/?id=12102

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Sony, Sony, Sony,

[backbreaker]

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You guys are feeding on old news, MS bought stock in immersion after it had to pay a fine 2 to 3 years ago, Sony was just stubborn and fought the law suit and appealed it 3 times and now its final. During the battle MS became a majority stock holder in immersion. Hence the change in design in the controller and it not being final.

This news is very old yet new at the same time, so you will see a controller designed to take advantage of the eyetoy and sony will try too seperate itseld from DS with some outrageous statement that will make most say typical sony.

I can envision sony saying the rumble feature makes your wireless controller lose energy faster and they will couple that with the fact that the PSP doesn't have a rumble feature and the games are still immersive. Your controller will be fully intergrated with the eyetoy to off set the rumble feature in which sony will say is so last gen.

[Rodster]

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I guess they never had the rights to begin with as this company was first to have the technology patented, and some how SONY didn't pay them which I'm kind of confused at that point. Almost 6 years later, they are getting sued.

I think the way it works is Immersion had patent rights to the rumble feature used in both the DualShock 2 and the Xbox controllers. Immersion called out both companies Sony and Microsoft and threatened to sue both of them claiming they had infringed on their rights to the technology.

Microsoft fought it and later settled out of court. They then bought a stake in the company, Immersion. Sony on the other hand refused to recognize Immersion and did not consider them to be the original patent holders of the DualShock technology. Sony has repeatedly appealed their case to the higher courts and each time they lost.

[countryboy]

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I think the way it works is Immersion had patent rights to the rumble feature used in both the DualShock 2 and the Xbox controllers. Immersion called out both companies Sony and Microsoft and threatened to sue both of them claiming they had infringed on their rights to the technology.

Microsoft fought it and later settled out of court. They then bought a stake in the company, Immersion. Sony on the other hand refused to recognize Immersion and did not consider them to be the original patent holders of the DualShock technology. Sony has repeatedly appealed their case to the higher courts and each time they lost.

thats it Sony fight the man, even if it cost you $90 million dollars and who knows how much in court costs.

[Blzer]

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PS3 controller redesign confirmed:







































That's not really it, but there is confirmation of a redesign:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/22/sony-confirms-ps3-controller-redesign/

[Misfit]

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Wow, someone's real creative...

[Ronoko]

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Oh ya, ps3 confirmed to be region free, I'll be playing some winning eleven and japanese baseball games, albeit this is not a sports forum.

It's like sony is trying to please the hackers with this and supposed linux support.

[bkrich83]

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If the PS3 is actually released Region free, that would be the biggest reason why I would buy one. Those Japanes Baseball games alone would make it worth it for me.

[fistofrage]

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If the PS3 is actually released Region 3, that would be the biggest reason why I would buy one. Those Japanes Baseball games alone would make it worth it for me.

The Japanese have some damn fine boxing games too. If the PS3 is region free, I would purchase that over an X-box 360 next fall when I buy my next gen system. Even if the PS3 is $100-$200 more.

[Crucial Mike]

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If the PS3 is actually released Region 3, that would be the biggest reason why I would buy one. Those Japanes Baseball games alone would make it worth it for me.

Same here...They take their baseball games quite seriously and seem to always have innovate interfaces and dynasty modes.

That cartoon baseball game (Pawuparu or something) looks kind of cool too. Like RBI baseball, but with actual player tendencies and great animations.

[jmood88]

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Oh ya, ps3 confirmed to be region free, I'll be playing some winning eleven and japanese baseball games, albeit this is not a sports forum.

It's like sony is trying to please the hackers with this and supposed linux support.

I don't know why they make it seem so special to have linux on there. Some people already have linux on the original xbox.

[aholbert32]

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The Japanese have some damn fine boxing games too. If the PS3 is region free, I would purchase that over an X-box 360 next fall when I buy my next gen system. Even if the PS3 is $100-$200 more.

Really? I would like to play Victorious Boxers and other japanese games but not for 160-260 more (price of the PS3 and a game).